Colorado History

St. Patrick’s Day traditions and how they began By Rosemary Fetter On March 17, most Americans proudly wear green, even those lacking an ancestral connection to the Emerald Isle. The holiday is celebrated with gusto in the U.S. partly because America’s Irish population is the one of the country’s largest ethnic groups, second only to the [...]

By Linda Jones Back in the 1990s, the Central City Council and its preservation arm, the Historic Preservation Commission, pioneered a bold idea – legally protecting the interior of a Historic Landmark building. Central City has been an established National Historic District for decades, but that protection only extends to the exterior of historic buildings.

By Rosemary Fetter Leap Year holds certain advantages for some folks. Every four years, an extra day is tacked on to the calendar, allowing people born Feb. 29 to take years off their lives without Botox or plastic surgery. Employers who pay by the month find it a boon, and ski resorts tend also to [...]

March is Women’s History Month When Mae Phelps arrived in Trinidad, shortly before the Turn of the Century, the once frontier adobe town was making progress in becoming the historic Victorian jewel of a city that it is today. An acute businesswoman, despite or due to her chosen profession, Phelps contributed to the fabric of [...]